SAN ANTONIO -- Southwest Research Institute has been awarded a four-year, $700,000 contract as a co-investigator under a U19 cooperative agreement grant through the National Institutes of Health to formulate siRNA microbiocides for targeted drug delivery to prevent HIV, as well as HSV and HPV.

Too young to have witnessed the ravages of the first wave of AIDS and aware that anti-AIDS drug cocktails can keep the illness in check, they are engaging in risky sex, said Wesley Ford, a co-investigator in the study for the county Department of Public Health.